Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

 

Note in Blue and Opal: The Sun Cloud

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 271), plate 184, as 'Note in Blue and Opal: The Sun Cloud'.

Authored by Whistler

  • None.

Catalogues 1855-1905

EXHIBITION:

  • 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884 (cat. no. 52) as 'Note in blue and opal – The Sun Cloud'.
  • Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 79).

SALE:

  • Christie's, London, 17 December 1904 (lot 40).

Newspapers 1855-1905

  • Anon., 'Mr. Whistler's Exhibition', Globe, London, 20 May 1884, p. 6.
  • Anon., 'Art Notes', Liverpool Mercury, London, 3 July 1884, p. 6.

Journals 1855-1905

  • ‘An Enthusiast’, [Sickert, W. R.], 'Mr Whistler and His Art', The Artist and Journal of Home Culture, vol. 5, 1 June 1884, pp. 199-201.
  • 'The "Romance" of Collecting', The Art Journal, 1905, p. 53.
  • Anon., The Studio Whistler Portfolio, London, 1905 (ten colour reproductions), repr. pl. 2.

Monographs

  • None.

Books on Whistler

  • Cary, Elizabeth Luther, The Works of James McNeill Whistler: A Study, with a Tentative List of Artist’s Works, New York, 1907, p. 38.
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces, New York, 2004, p. 391 n.3.
  • Holden, Donald, Whistler Landscapes and Seascapes, New York, 1969, p. 59, pl. 19.
  • Menpes, Mortimer, Whistler as I Knew Him, London, 1904, repr. p. 70.
  • Sickert, Bernhard, Whistler, London and New York, 1908, p. 171 (cat. no. 153).
  • Sutton, Denys, Nocturne: The Art of James McNeill Whistler, London, 1963, p. 105.

Books, General

  • Hoopes, Donelson F., The American Impressionists, New York, 1972, p. 26, pl. 4.
  • Robins, Anna Gruetzner (ed.), Walter Sickert: the Complete Writings on Art, Oxford, 2000, p. 5.

Catalogues 1906-Present

COLLECTION:

  • Stubbs, Burns A., Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Prints and Copper Plates by and attributed to American and European Artists, together with a List of Original Whistleriana in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948, p. 14 (04 31).
  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, pp. 134, 294, pl. 38.
  • Freer Gallery of Art, Gallery Book VIII, Washington, D.C., May 1923.

EXHIBITION:

  • Selection of Art Objects from The Freer Collection, National Museum, Washington, DC, 1912 (cat. no. 10).
  • Inaugural Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, 1912 (cat. no. 108).
  • Myers, Kenneth John, Mr. Whistler’s Gallery: Pictures at an 1884 Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 39, 93.

Journals 1906-Present

  • None.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1904.314a-c.

Unpublished

  • Revillon, Joseph Whistler, Draft Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of J. McN. Whistler, [ca 1945-1955], Glasgow University Library (cat. no. 330).

Other

  • None.

Last updated: 14th December 2020 by Margaret